violence, student, report, YMCA, Education Services, intimate, Gender, domestic violence, crime.
An estimated 25 to 50 percent of all women in an intimate relationship will be physically assaulted; Feld.
Approximately 1 in 10 high school students has experienced physical violence in dating relationships.
Up to 50% of all homeless women and children in the U.S. are fleeing domestic violence; National Coalition Against Domestic Violence, 1993.
Contact the University, Bryan or College Station Police Department to file a a crime report.
Contact Gender Issues Education Services for support and guidance.
Regardless of whether you decide to file a report, the coordinator of Gender Issues Education Services is available to listen and serve as an advocate.
00_aera_who_is_proficient http://www.ous.edu/pass/documents/archive/research/00_aera_who_is_proficient.pdf
proficiency, students, teachers, grades, English, mathematics, literature, grading, geometry.
The study compares teachers' idiosyncratic grading systems with judgments derived from a standards-based scoring system.
Stated differently, what is the relationship between student grades on an A-F scale and student proficiency scores on a 5-point scale?
Table 5 summarizes the number of collections of work that were submitted by student grade level in high school Teachers were asked to target juniors and seniors, but were not prohibited from including freshmen and sophomores.
Table 8 shows the relationship between the grades students received in the mathematics class in which they produced their collection of work that was subsequently judged and the proficiency area in which the collection was produced.
mearsarticle http://wcr.sonoma.edu/v4n1/Manuscripts/mearsarticle.pdf
peer, age, drugs, Elliott, offenses, peer associations, offending, youths, influence.
Despite long held understanding of the strong associations among delinquency, age, and delinquent peer association, examination of the interrelationship among these three factors remains largely unaddressed.
Drawing on research concerning the age/peer link and the significance of peer relations for specific offenses, we employ data from the National Youth Survey (NYS) to examine the interactive relationship between age and peer associations on delinquency.
To examine whether an interaction between age and delinquent peer association exists, we present models that include each of the constituent variables (i.e., age and delinquent peer association) and an interaction of the two.
Both cross-sectional and longitudinal data can be used to examine age/peer interactions, but in each instance there are alternative explanations (cohort effects or period effects, respectively) that may account for the differences (Tonry, Ohlin, and Farrington 1991).
meas http://www.ciel.org/Publications/meas.pdf
environment, WTO, MEAs, trade, negotiations, clarifying, sustainable development, economy, governance.
Achieving sustainable development requires a more complementary and coherent framework of global economic and environmental governance.
Central to this effort must be more proactive engagement by "non-trade" interests in governments, intergovernmental organizations and civil society to ensure that ongoing WTO trade and environment negotiations yield outcomes that are economically, socially and environmentally balanced.
Because economy and environment are inextricably related, MEAs and the WTO necessarily overlap in their coverage, and address many of the same issues, parties and products, albeit from differing perspectives.
Increased policy coherence can help reduce the complexity of international negotiations; increased rule coherence can smooth national implementation; and increased institutional coherence--for example, in the area of capacity building--can help secretariats ensure that capacity building is demanddriven, and suited to the genuine needs of developing countries.
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exclusive breastfeeding, household, health, Nicaraguan, infants, prevalence, mothers, head, child.
Espinoza H. The relationship between family structure and exclusive breastfeeding prevalence in Nicaragua.
Interviewee women heads of household and interviewee women whose husbands were the heads of the household had a significantly lower prevalence of EBF.
Without this support, activities outside the home, such as having to work, might prevent exclusive breastfeeding.
In Nicaraguan society, women are highly dependent on the support system formed by sisters, mothers, grandmothers, and other relatives.
The positive relationship between the women's level of education, the use of modern contraceptive methods, the size of the family, and living in a rural or urban area with the prevalence of exclusive breastfeeding, showed up only in the two-way contingency table analysis but not in the multivariate model.
destructive_relationships http://www.dartmouth.edu/~hrs/newsletter/pdfs/destructive_relationships.pdf
controlling, Employee, emotions, ability, moving, feelings, response, Employee Assistance Program, resources.
What Allen is referring to is growth---and for a relationship to grow, communication must flow between the different parties, who need to engage equally in the dialogue.
However, for that to be effective, there are four required ingredients: the ability to be in touch with one's thoughts or feelings; the ability and freedom to articulate those ideas or emotions; the ability to trust that those statements will be received in a manner that will allow the contributor to feel safe; and the shared belief that what is expressed may in fact challenge the status quo.
No wonder people develop a hopeless and helpless attitude, becoming blind to the controlling behavior.
The counselors at the Faculty and Employee Assistance Program are always available to meet confidentially with employees and/or their family members to discuss these issues in more depth.
HelsinkiGebreWold
arms, police, demand, Horn, security, control, weapons, SALIGAD, violence.
Exploring the relationship between human security, demand for arms, and disarmament in the Horn of Africa.
Most of what I will be saying is based on experience and interactions BICC has had with its partners in the Horn of Africa region over the last 17 months within the framework of the SALIGAD project.
It presents options for controlling and managing small arms within reach of the people suffering from violence.
SALIGAD's work is thus complementary to initiatives to control supply and to restrict access to small arms and light weapons as done by some of the organizations represented here today.
Most police stations and barracks are in appalling conditions, thus police often resort to corruption and the like to earn their living.
cable_tv http://www.hp.com/solutions1/corporatebusiness/prime/primesuccess/cable_tv.pdf
volume-direct program, customer, printers, purchase, communications company, direct relationship, procurement, Hewlett-Packard Company, business.
Today, it not only is recognized as one of this nation's largest cable television companies, but also one of the best in customer care.
This company wanted Hewlett-Packard Company as a strategic IT partner and to purchase directly from HP, starting with ordering HP printers.
In addition, HP supported this customer's use of a procurement software volume-direct program tool from FileMaker (a subsidiary of Apple Computer, Inc.).
Within this tool the customer utilizes "procurement cards" to actually place purchase orders and the software produces an e-mail that is sent directly to HP's order desk This communications giant established a direct relationship with HP via the HP.
product_relationship_optimizer http://www.nutechsolutions.com/pdf/product_relationship_optimizer.pdf
Relationship Optimizer, member, donor, NuTech Solutions, effectiveness, Motor, Cross-selling, reports, technologies.
NuTech Solutions' Relationship Optimizer will help you create closer relationships between your organization and its donors through data-driven and needsbased product and service offers.
Based on rough-sets, hybrid evolutionary algorithms, and other very advanced Artificial Intelligence technologies, NuTech Solutions' Relationship Optimizer performs a complex real-time analysis of each member and donor to deliver the right offer to the right audience at the right time.
The company's current client roster includes Ford Motor Company, Siemens, BB&T, Chevron, General Motors, Marks and Spencer, BMW, Beiersdorf, U.S. Department of Defense, Corning, Polish National Air Force, FujiTec, Unilever, and World Changers Church International (Creflo Dollar Ministries).
1-931089-10-8 http://www.capitalism.net/E_Packer/1-931089-10-8.pdf
parents, partners, lives, couples, emotions, criticize, interference, healthy relationship, surprising.
In the bulk of my lecture, I covered the major requirements for a lasting romantic relationship, such as admiration, trust, intimacy, and the need for clear and explicit terms agreed upon by the partners about how to conduct the romantic relationship.
I urged that couples make important decisions by agreement, that each partner assume the responsibility for his or her intellectual and emotional growth, and that each seek to develop optional values in which both can participate.
I want to begin today's discussion by dealing with another external influence, namely, the effects parents have in the present on the romantic relationship.
You may be surprised to hear, however, that in the majority of cases I deal with, the parents continue to seriously affect the everyday lives of couples.
resa_appendices http://www.facs.gov.au/internet/facsinternet.nsf/vIA/resa/$file/resa_appendices.pdf
council, Shire Council, city council, questionnaire, education, District, Australian Relationship, Education Service, skill.
3. Did educators in the organisation/agency develop the course?
4. Was the development of the course based on existing materials*?
5. Was the course commercially developed but adapted to suit the local context*?
6. Is the course a commercially available* course?
9. Does the content of the course vary?
10. What (if any) specific risk factors* associated with marital / relationship breakdown does the course aim to address?
11. What (if any) specific protective factors* associated with marital / relationship enhancement does the course aim to address?
16. Is your organisation a profit or not for profit organisation?
17. For each session in your course please complete the following table (s).
1999Angelopo http://www-ssc.igpp.ucla.edu/gem/tutorial/1999Angelopo.pdf
flows, Angelopoulos, GEM meeting, SSL/UCB, onset, substorm, JGR, BBFs, km/s.
Poleward leap of auroras at PS recovery.
PSBL dynamically important [Eastman et al.,'84] PSBL represents non-local activity; ion DF's dispersed; retreating NL?
Average PS flow small (~30 km/s) both near NS and at PSBL.
PS flow interrupted by short-lived, fast flows.
"Whatever causes onset is close and is moving tailward."
Transport properties of BBFs dominant in PS.
Geotail era (1994+): Most frequent observation of Rx=28RE [Nagai et al.'98] Fast flows and substorms: Ongoing research.
Association with high latitude (71 deg) activation.
Shown that prior to onset, waves grow out of "noise" with initial tailward flow velocity and Poynting flux into the ionosphere.
